Senior Software Engineer, Android AI Core

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  • Google
  • Bucharest,
  • Full-Time
  • 3 weeks ago
Published
April 28, 2026
Location
Bucharest, Romania
Category
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Senior Software Engineer, Android AI Core: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role: A senior software engineer role focused on Android platform development within an AI and systems context for Google's Android AI Core. The person will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance Android software, participate in design reviews, review peer code, and triage and resolve product or system issues.
  • Requirements: The posting explicitly requires experience with Java, software design and architecture, testing and maintaining software products, and data structures and algorithms. It also calls out experience developing accessible technologies and one year of technical leadership experience.

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in Java as a programming language.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.

About the job:

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, with your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities:

  • Write and test product or system development code. Proficient with Java. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  • Comply with all company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
Key Skills
? Key Skills in dark blue have been inferred based on similar industry roles
Android SDK Android NDK Data Structures & Algorithms Unit Testing Debugging Accessibility Development Natural Language Processing Leadership Ui Design Java Android System Design UI

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